The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interesting game budget tidbit about StarCraft II, saying: "Blizzard's parent company, Activision Blizzard, has spent more than $100 million developing the computer-based game." Thanks GameSpot where they note that this figure represents development costs, and does not include the marketing budget for the real-time strategy sequel.

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Eh, it stands out more at Blues, but it just seems to be PC gaming culture now. Sucks, because I too am getting tired of it. Seems to be the way it is now. Maybe I just have on some particularly dark rose-tinted glasses, but it seems PC gamers as a whole weren't always overly negative dbags...

It's not your glasses, it's the culture of the internet for everything...not just PC gaming, console gaming, or gaming as a whole. People on the internet generally act like douchebags. When they're not acting like douchebags, we're mis-reading what they say as such.

Ironically, some of the exact malaise that Blizzard wants to combat with stripping away anonymity on their forums. I have had the pleaser of meeting a number of people from forums in real life and they are, with very few exceptions, much nicer face to face.